Spelling words worksheets

By grade

• 1st Grade A gentler on-ramp
• 2nd Grade A gentler on-ramp
• 3rd Grade Right on level
• 4th Grade A step harder
• 5th Grade A step harder
• 6th Grade A step harder

What students need to know

Each week has its own list, and most weeks share a secret: the words follow one spelling pattern. Find the pattern and half the list spells itself.

This skill runs from 1st grade through 6th grade. Pick a grade above for level-matched sentences, teaching notes, and worksheets.

Spelling words across the grades

1st grade

Thirty-six weekly lists for 1st grade, ten words each: seven from the week's pattern, two review words, and one challenge word. The year climbs from CVC families (-at, -an) through digraphs and blends to silent e, vowel teams, and the trickiest sight words. Lists are fixed, so everyone studies the same ten words toward the same Friday.

2nd grade

Thirty-six weekly lists for 2nd grade, twelve words each: eight from the week's spelling pattern (the year walks from short vowels through silent e, vowel teams, and r-controlled sounds to endings and contractions), two review words, and two challenge words. Lists are fixed, so a class or family stays on the same words all week; the sheet adds cover-and-write practice columns.

3rd grade

Thirty-six weekly lists for 3rd grade, fourteen words each: ten from the week's pattern, two review, two challenge. The year moves from long-vowel spellings through diphthongs and r-controlled families into soft c and g, silent letters, contractions, prefixes, suffixes, and the plural and -ing rules that real writing leans on.

4th grade

Thirty-six weekly lists for 4th grade, fifteen words each: eleven from the week's pattern, two review, two challenge. Fourth grade is the affix year (dis-, pre-, mis-, -tion, -ture, -ous, -able), with ei/ie, silent consonants, -ough, and the homophone pairs that follow writers into middle school.

5th grade

Thirty-six weekly lists for 5th grade, fifteen words each. The year belongs to word parts: Latin and Greek roots (port, form, dict, struct, graph, phon, meter, spect, ject, tract), the -ance/-ence and -ant/-ent families, -ible, doubling before suffixes, and the hard homophones. Spell the root once and a dozen words come free.

6th grade

Thirty-six weekly lists for 6th grade, fifteen words each: the bridge to middle school. Roots keep compounding (duc, script, mit, pel, scope, chron), the -cede/-ceed set gets settled, French endings and assimilated prefixes appear, and the year closes on the canon of words adults still misspell.